YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation
But Not the One You're Mad About Karissa Bell / Mashable : YouTube changes ‘strike’ policy for first-time offenders David Cohen / Adweek : Three Strikes Is Still an Out, But YouTube Is Clarifying Its ...
Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
Here's What To Do Reuters : Zuckerberg to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger: NYT Chief Chapree / Lowyat.NET : Facebook Reportedly Working On Cross-Messaging Feature for WhatsApp, In...
Facebook says it is rolling out Watch globally on desktop and Facebook Lite and expands availability of Ad Breaks, 15-second in-stream ads, to 14 more markets
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Kevin Systrom's statement on his and Mike Krieger's departure from Instagram says they plan to take time off “to explore our curiosity and creativity again”
Last night, the tech-twitter was lit … Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Report: Instagram likely to get longtime Facebook exec Adam Mosseri as boss Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Facebook'...
Pinterest makes Shop The Look Pins, a free product-tagging tool previously available only to big businesses, available to all businesses and influencers
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Instagram Shopping launches personalized Explore channel, expands Stories tags after testing them since June, and lets brands add a shopping bag icon to Stories
but here's how it's trying to woo window-shoppers in its current one Kaya Yurieff / CNNMoney : Instagram just made it a lot easier to shop on the app Robert Williams / Retail Dive : Instagram expands ...
Facebook announces the international rollout of Facebook Watch, which first launched in the US a year ago this month, starting on Thursday
and the global TV market Lucinda Southern / Digiday : Facebook extends Watch and mid-roll beyond the U.S. Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Watch is Now Available to All Users Globally...
Twitter says over the next week it will adjust users' follower counts to no longer include locked accounts, dropping Twitter's combined follower count by ~6%
here's why Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Twitter to Remove Millions of Accounts from Follower Numbers as Part of New Push Aroon Deep / MediaNama : Twitter users will lose four followers on ...
Facebook says it's notifying ~800,000 users who were hit by a bug in Facebook and Messenger from May 29 to June 5 that unblocked some people they had blocked
this time with a new software bug that ‘unblocked’ people Amy Pollard / Slate : Facebook Accidentally Unblocked a Bunch of Blocked Users Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz : Facebook's latest screw-up unblocked...
Facebook Live update brings ability to crosspost live video across pages and persistent stream keys for easier setup today, live rewind coming soon
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